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D.Recirculated air: Touch the button to switch between outside air
and recirculated air. When you select recirculated air, the air currently in
the passenger compartment recirculates. This may reduce the time
needed to cool the interior (when used with A/C) and may reduce
unwanted odors from entering your vehicle.
Note: Recirculated air may turn off automatically (or be prevented
from turning on) in all airflow modes except MAX A/Cto reduce risk
of fogging. Recirculated air may also turn on and off automatically in
Panel orPanel and Floor airflow modes during hot weather in order
to improve cooling efficiency.
E. MAX A/C: Touch the button to maximize cooling. Recirculated air
flows through the instrument panel vents, air conditioning automatically
turns on, and the fan automatically adjusts to the highest speed.
F. A/C: Touch the button to switch the air conditioning compressor on or
off. Use air conditioning with recirculated air to improve cooling
performance and efficiency.
Note: In certain conditions (such as when using Max Defrost), the air
conditioning compressor may continue to operate even after you
switch off the air conditioning with the A/Cbutton
G. AUTO: Touch the button to switch on automatic operation. Select the
desired temperature using the temperature control. The system adjusts
fan speed, air distribution, air conditioning operation, and selects outside
air or recirculated air to heat or cool the vehicle in order to maintain the
desired temperature. You can also use the AUTObutton to switch off
dual zone operation by touching and holding the button for more than
two seconds.
H. Heated rear window: Turns the heated rear window on and off. See
Heated windows and mirrors in theClimate Control chapter.
I. Defrost: Touch the button to distribute air to the windshield vents
and de-mister. Air distribution to instrument panel and footwell vents
turn off. You can use this setting to defog and clear the windshield of a
thin covering of ice.
J. Manual controls: Touch these buttons to switch airflow from the
windshield, instrument panel, or footwell vents on or off. The system can
distribute air through any combination of these vents.
Note: To prevent window fogging, you cannot select recirculated air
when MAX Defrost is on.
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K.Driver settings: Depending on your vehicle and option package, you
may have the following features:
• Touch the +or –to increase or decrease the air temperature on the
passenger side of the vehicle.
• Touch the heated seat icon to switch the heated seat off and on (if
equipped).
• Touch the climate-controlled seat icon to switch the
climate-controlled seat off and on (if equipped).
• Touch MyTemp to select your preset temperature setpoint. Touch
and hold MyTemp to save a new preset temperature setpoint.
• Touch the heated steering wheel icon to switch the heated steering
wheel on and off (if equipped).
Note: If your vehicle is equipped with a wood-trimmed steering wheel, it
does not heat between the 10 o’clock and 2 o’clock positions.
Climate Control Voice Commands
The following voice commands are available at the main menu
level of a voice session. For example, press the voice button
and after the prompt, “Say a command”; say any of the
following commands:
Climate control voice commands
“Climate automatic”
“Climate my temperature” “Climate off”“Climate on”
“Climate temperature <15.5–29.5> degrees” “Climate temperature <60–85> degrees” “Help”
There are additional climate control commands but in order to access
them, you have to say “Climate” first, then when the system is ready to
listen, you may say any of the following commands:
Additional climate control voice commands
“Automatic” “Panel on” “A/C off” “Rear defrost off”“A/C on” “Rear defrost on”
“Defrost off” “Recirc off” “Defrost on” “Recirc on”
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Additional climate control voice commands“Dual off” “Temperature”*
“Fan decrease” “Temperature <15.5–29.5>
degrees”
“Fan increase” “Temperature <60–85> degrees”
“Floor on” “Temperature decrease”
“Max A/C off” “Temperature high”
“Max A/C on” “Temperature increase”
“My temp” “Temperature low”
“Off” “Windshield floor on”
“On” “Help”
“Panel floor on”
*If you have said “Temperature”, you can say any of the commands in the
following “Temperature” chart.
“TEMPERATURE”
“High”“Low”
“<15.5–29.5> degrees” “<60–85> degrees” “Help”
NAVIGATION SYSTEM (IF EQUIPPED)
Note: The navigation SD card must be in the SD card slot to operate the
navigation system. If you need a replacement SD card, see your
authorized dealer.
Note: The SD card slot is spring-loaded. To remove the SD card, just
push the card in and release it. Do not attempt to pull the card out to
remove it; this could cause damage.
Your navigation system is comprised of two main features, destination
mode and map mode.
To set a destination, press the green corner of your touchscreen, then
Dest when it appears. See Setting a destination later in this chapter.
To view the navigation map and your vehicle’s current location, touch the
green bar in the upper right hand corner of the touchscreen, or, press
Dest >Map. SeeMap mode later in this chapter.
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Setting a Destination
Press the green corner of your touchscreen, thenDestwhen it appears.
Choose any of the following:
Destination selections
My Home Street Address
Favorites Intersection
Previous Destinations City Center
Point of Interest Map
Emergency Edit Route Cancel Route
1. Enter the necessary information into the highlighted text fields (in any order). For address destination entry, Go!appears once you
enter all the necessary information. Pressing Go!makes the address
location appear on the map. If you choose Previous Destination,
the last 20 destinations you have selected appear.
2. Select Set as Dest to make this your destination. You can also
choose to set this as a waypoint (have the system route to this point
on the way to your current destination) or save it as a favorite. The
system considers any Avoid Areasselections in its route calculation.
3. Choose from up to three different types of routes, and then select Start Route.
•Fastest Route: Uses the fastest moving roads possible.
• Shortest Route: Uses the shortest distance possible.
• Eco Route: Uses the most fuel-efficient route.
You can cancel the route or have the system demo the route for you.
Select Route Prefs to set route preferences like avoiding freeways,
tollroads, ferries and car trains as well as to use or not use
high-occupancy vehicle lanes. (High-occupancy vehicle lanes are also
known as carpool or diamond lanes. People who ride in buses, vanpools
or carpools use these lanes.)
Note: If your vehicle is on a recognized road and you do not press the
Start Route button, the system defaults to the Fastest Routeoption
and begins guidance.
During route guidance, you can press the talking bubble icon that
appears in the upper right navigation corner (green bar) if you want the
system to repeat route guidance information. When the system repeats
the last guidance instruction, it updates the distance to the next
guidance instruction, since it detects when the vehicle is moving.
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Point of Interest (POI) Categories
Your system offers a variety of points of interest categories.
Main categories
Food/Drink & Dining Automotive
Travel & Transportation Shopping
Financial Entertainment & Arts
Emergency Recreation & Sports
Community Government
Health & Medicine Domestic Services
Within these main categories, there are subcategories which contain
more listings:
Subcategories Restaurant Golf
Parking
Home & Garden
Personal Care Services Automobile Dealership Government Office Public TransitEducation
To expand these listings, press the +in front of the point of interest
listing.
When programming a point of interest destination, the system allows you
to sort the resulting lists alphabetically, by distance or by cityseekr
listings (if available).
Pressing the Search Areas button allows you to search for points of
interest nearby, near a city or state or near a destination, if a route is
active.
Pressing the Search By Name button allows you to directly enter the
point of interest name into the system by using the keyboard.
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cityseekr (If Available)
Note:cityseekr point of interest information is limited to approximately
912 cities (881 in the United States, 20 in Canada and 11 in Mexico).
cityseekr, when available, is a service that
provides more information about certain
points of interest such as restaurants,
hotels and attractions.
When you have selected a point of
interest, the location and information
appear, such as address and phone
number. If cityseekr lists the point of
interest, more information is available, such as a brief description, hotel
check-in and checkout times or restaurant hours.
Press More Information for a longer review, a list of services and
facilities, the average room or meal price as well as the website link.
This screen displays either a facility photo (if available) or point of
interest icons, such as:
Hotel
Coffeehouse
Food & Drink
Nightlife Attraction
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This icon appears when your selection exists in multiple
categories within the system.
When you are viewing more information for hotels, cityseekr also tells
you if the hotel has certain services and facilities using icons.
Hotel services and facilities
Restaurant24 Hr Room Service
Business CenterFitness Center
Handicap FacilitiesInternet Access
LaundryPool
RefrigeratorWi-Fi
For restaurants, cityseekr can provide information, such as star rating,
average cost, review, handicap access, hours of operation, and website
address.
For hotels, cityseekr can provide information, such as star rating, price
category, review, check-in and check-out times, hotel service icons and
website address.
Setting Your Navigation Preferences
Select settings for the system to take into account when planning your
route. Press the Settings icon > Settings>Navigation.
Map Preferences
Breadcrumbs displays your vehicle’s previously traveled route with
white dots. Turn this feature ONorOFF.
Turn List Format allows you to choose to have the system display your
turn list Top to Bottom orBottom to Top.
Parking POI Notification sets the automatic parking points of interest
notification. Turn this feature ONorOFF. When parking points of
interest notification is on, the icons display on the map when you get
close to your destination. This may not be very useful in dense areas,
and may clutter the map when other points of interest display.
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Route Preferences
Preferred Routeallows you to choose to have the system display the
Shortest, Fastest or mostEcological route first. If you set Always
Use Preferred Route toYe s , the system uses the selected route type
to calculate only one route to the desired destination.
Always Use Preferred Route bypasses route selection in destination
programming. The system only calculates one route based on the
preferred route setting.
Eco Time Penalty allows you to select a low, medium or high cost for
the calculated Eco Route. The higher the setting, the longer the time
allotment is for the route.
Avoid features allows you to choose to have the system avoid freeways,
toll roads, ferries and car trains when planning your route. Turn these
features ONorOFF.
Use HOV Lanes allows you to choose to have the system use
high-occupancy vehicle lanes, if available, when planning your route.
Navigation Preferences
Guidance Prompts allows you to choose to have the system use Voice
& Tones orTone Only on your programmed route.
Auto - Fill State/Province allows you have the system automatically fill
in the state and province based on the information already entered into
the system. Turn this feature ONorOFF.
Traffic Preferences
Avoid Traffic Problems allows you to choose how you want the system
to handle traffic problems along your route.
• Automatic: Have the system reroute you to avoid traffic incidents
that develop and impact the current route. The system does not
provide a traffic alert notification.
• Manual: Have the system always provide a traffic alert notification
for traffic incidents along the planned route. You have a choice to
accept or ignore the notification before making the route deviation.
Traffic Alert Notification allows you to choose have the system
display traffic alert notifications.
Other traffic alert features allows you to turn on certain, or all, traffic
icons on the map such as road work, incident, accidents and closed
roads. Scroll down to view all the different types of alerts. Turn these
features ONorOFF.
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Avoid Areas
Avoid Areasallows you to choose areas which you want the system to
avoid when calculating a route for you.
Press Addto program an entry. Once you make a selection, the system
tries to avoid the area(s) if possible for all routes. To delete a selection,
choose the listing on the screen. When the screen changes to Avoid
Areas Edit, you can press Deleteat the bottom right of the screen.
Map Mode
Press the green bar in the upper right area of the touchscreen to view
map mode. Map mode shows advanced viewing comprised of both 2D
city maps as well as 3D landmarks (when available).
2D city maps show detailed outlines of buildings, visible land use and
land elements and detailed railway infrastructure for the most essential
cities around the globe. These maps also contain features, such as town
blocks, building footprints, and railways.
3D landmarks appear as clear, visible objects that are typically
recognizable and have a certain tourist value. The 3D landmarks appear
in 3D map mode only. Coverage varies, and improves with updated map
releases.
Change the appearance of the map
display by repeatedly pressing the
arrow button in the upper left
corner of the screen. It toggles
between three different map modes:
Heading up, North up, and 3D.
Heading up (2D map) always shows the direction of forward
travel to be upward on the screen. This view is available for map
scales up to 2.5 miles (4 kilometers). The system remembers this
setting for larger map scales, but shows the map in North up
only. If the scale returns below this level, the system restores Heading
up.
North up (2D map) always shows the northern direction to be
upward on the screen.
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3D map modeprovides an elevated perspective of the map. This
viewing angle can be adjusted and the map can be rotated 180
degrees by touching the map twice, and then dragging your finger
along the shaded bar with arrows at the bottom of the map.
Vi e w switches between full map, street list and exit view in route
guidance.
Menu displays a pop-up box that allows direct access to navigation
settings, View/Edit Route, Sirius Travel Link, Guidance Mute and Cancel
Route.
Press the speaker button on the map to mute route guidance.
When the light on the button illuminates, the feature is on. The
speaker button appears on the map only when route guidance
is active.
Re-center the map by pressing this icon whenever you scroll
the map away from your vehicle’s current location.
Auto Zoom
Press the green bar to access map mode, then select the +or -zoom
button to bring up the zoom level and Auto buttons on the touchscreen.
When you press Auto,Auto Zoom turns on and Autodisplays in the
bottom left corner of the screen in the map scale. The map zoom level
then synchronizes with vehicle speed. The slower your vehicle is
traveling, the farther in the map zooms in; the faster your vehicle is
traveling, the farther the map zooms out. To turn the feature off, just
press the +or -button again.
In 3D mode, rotate the map view by swiping your finger across the
shaded bar with the arrows.
The ETA box under the zoom buttons appears when a route is active
and displays the distance and time to your destination. If the button is
pressed, a pop up appears with the destination listed (and waypoint if
applicable) along with mileage and time to destination. You may also
select to have either the estimated time to reach your destination or
your estimated arrival time.
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